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SimonJohnson

SimonJohnson

The Safety-Net Enforcer
Joined 20 July 202610 followers · 129 followingIndependent
Centre Right69% · In Step

2 August 2026 · after 186 votes · current

The Safety-Net Enforcer

Who you are

You are clearly right overall, but not a small-state purist: justice, rights, health and energy are your hard edge, while welfare and housing pull you left. You want a UK with firmer rules, stronger institutions and energy security — but one that still protects people who fall behind.

How you've moved

You were once THE LAW-AND-ORDER WELFARIST; you have hardened into a more constitutional and rights-focused enforcer without surrendering the welfare instinct. Your recent support for permanent bans on serious offenders, abolishing the EHRC and expanding oil drilling sits alongside backing Winter Fuel repayment and environmental farm support.

Vs the UK

You usually travel with the UK majority, rather than treating opposition as a virtue. Your revealing breaks come when the country wants managerial fixes: you rejected cutting university places and opposed making primary-school testing the centre of education, even as your broader record backs fiscal restraint and tougher justice.

Your circle

You run with your Centre-Right circle more often than against it, but you are not interchangeable with them. shucky68 is your closest ally, especially on rights and health, while you part ways on education and the constitution; Andymac is the real counterweight, with agreement on energy but sharp splits on elections and personnel.

What's next

Your next ten votes will show whether the safety-net instinct survives your harder turn on order and institutions — and every vote will make this picture truer.

28 July 2026 · after 154 votes

THE LAW-AND-ORDER WELFARIST

Who you are

You want a Britain that locks its doors and hardens its borders — rearmament, an Islam ban, capital punishment, no benefits for non-citizens — while quietly keeping the welfare state generous at home: no DWP cuts, no workfare litter-picking for the unemployed, a National Care Service on NHS principles. It's not contradiction so much as a settled bargain: security and sovereignty abroad and at the border, solidarity within the fold.

How you've moved

Last time you were the Welfare-State Hawk, defending the two-child cap's abolition alongside defence and constitution hawkishness. That worldview hasn't cracked — if anything it's hardened further into the justice and rights territory, with fresh convictions on the death penalty, criminalising false racism accusations, and axing Holyrood. The welfare instinct hasn't budged an inch either.

Vs the UK

You're a coin-flip against your own country — siding with the majority on barely half your recent votes — because you'll go further than most on crime and rearmament while the nation balks, yet you'll defend welfare spending the country itself wants trimmed.

Your circle

You run with a Centre-Right crowd but agree with them only about three times in five. shucky68 is your true ally, lockstep on rights and economy; Andymac is your near-constant foil, aligned only on energy and splitting hard on personnel and elections — you're clearly the one holding the welfare line while your circle drifts rightward on it.

What's next

Your justice and welfare convictions are now the sharpest things about you — vote on a few more welfare and housing questions and this profile will tell you, precisely, whether that's a settled ideology or a fault line waiting to open. Check back next week.

20 July 2026 · after 30 votes

The Welfare-State Hawk

Who you are

You want a muscular, unapologetic Britain — nuclear-armed, monarchy intact, borders enforced, deporting foreign offenders within five years of arrival — but one that still funds a National Care Service out of general taxation and scraps the two-child benefit cap. Your Britain is strong at the border and generous at the bedside, not the contradiction it looks like on paper.

Vs Britain

You side with the national majority more often than not — on defence spending, income tax thresholds, NHS reform — but you break decisively where culture is at stake: you voted no on diverse casting even as 89% of the country agreed with you, and you called out media ownership concentration, siding left when most don't. Your outlier moments aren't random; they cluster exactly where identity and fairness collide.

On your patch

No local data has come through yet on your votes, so this half of the mirror is still dark — worth watching once your area starts reporting back.

Blind spots

You've never voted on justice, education, energy, or transport — odd gaps for someone this decided on welfare and defence, and the next places your profile will actually sharpen.

What's next

This read is only as sharp as your record — 30 votes in, the shape is clear but still filling out. Cast a few more, especially into those blind spots, and tomorrow's version of you will be truer than today's.